Look at how goddamn ugly the stars are.
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
There was a magic about pulsars... no other things in the sky had such labels on them. Each one had its own distinct pulsing frequency, so it could be identified by anybody, including other creatures, after a long period of time and far, far away.
Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.
Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of 'planet,' which, of course, only ever meant, 'Do you move against the background stars, regardless of what you're made of?'
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
I'm working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit.
In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.
Pulsars are in an ideal part of the universe to test Einstein's theory of relativity - so far, it's holding up well. They may even one day act as navigational beacons for spacecraft. I'll never tire of them; they really are the most extraordinary objects.
Stars don't sit still, they twinkle
But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.
We shouldn't persuade people that we can simply conjure up the sun and the moon: at the most, we can deliver a telescope.
I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love it so much.
Belgarath turned back to Senji. “All right,” he said. “The Sardion came to Zamad. How?” “It’s said to have fallen out of the sky.” “They always do,” Beldin said. “Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.
Saturn is accompanied by a very large and diverse collection of moons. They range in size from a few kilometers across to as big across as the U.S.
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky.
Yes I do it big, call me little astronomical. Weezy F. Baby and the F is for phenomenal.
There's no night without stars.
We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they're moving away from us.
Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.
All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight.
